Bree Royce
Editor-in-Chief
Bree is an unrepentant escapist with a predilection for MMOs. When not compulsively proofreading cereal boxes and newspapers, she can be found modding, PvPing on the auction hall, and touring the Next Big Thing with her guild on a quest for the elusive perfect game.
Working As Intended and Ask Mo are her pet op-ed columns, but she also pens Daily Grinds and compiles Massively Overthinking, the Week in Review, and Make My MMO. You can hear her ramble about MMOs every week on the Massively OP podcast. If you're nice, she'll even talk about something other than Star Wars Galaxies.
Personal blog: SkycandyTwitter: @nbrianna
Favorite MMOs: Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes, Lord of the Rings Online, Guild Wars, Guild Wars 2, Ultima Online
Improbable and Crytek team up for SpatialOS CryEngine integration and new AAA game
Improbable made headlines over the last couple of weeks thanks to its tussle with Unity over SpatialOS's integration and licensing. That tussle's since ended,...
EVE Online cracks down on cheaters, again, and contemplates more free-to-play gates
You'd think that people might think twice about cheating in EVE Online, given that in 2018 alone, the company banned tens of thousands of...
RuneScape boots player who streamed himself bullying a suicidal gamer
A game as large and old and multifaceted as RuneScape is bound to collect some bad seeds over time, and as we've seen repeatedly...
Gamigo is reversing last week’s ArcheAge unicorn mount stealth-normalization
Last week, we covered the mess over ArcheAge's unicorn mounts, which had been patched and speed-normalized without notice, leaving players angry over what they...
Leaderboard: Do you think Bethsoft is going to take Fallout 76 free-to-play?
One of the claims floating around Reddit and YouTube is the claim that stores across the globe, from the UK to Australia to even...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone DLC has hit the PTS – here’s what to expect
Boom! Elder Scrolls Online players have known about the Wrathstone DLC for only a week, and now here we are welcoming its arrival on...
Astellia confirms it’ll be buy-to-play in the west, won’t be a ‘smash-and-grab’
At PAX South this weekend, Astellia reps did indeed sit for a panel on the game as promised - a panel hosted, apparently "at...
Ashes of Creation yoinks another ex-Daybreaker, this one a community manager
Ashes of Creation's Intrepid Studios has been grabbing up Daybreak devs left and right, and now it's hired a new one: Sarah "Lt. Toast"...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Overwatch if it had a PvE or co-op mode?
Overwatch had a strange 2018. While Blizzard expanded the game's developer team last year, it also put out less content (and more repeat content)...
Here’s what The Repopulation’s current owners are working on in 2019
At the tail end of 2018, The Repopulation actually saw some forward movement under its new owners at Idea Fabrik, with the launch of...
Grab a free key for Wild Terra from Juvty and MOP
Looking for something to play on today's holiday? How about Wild Terra? The isometric sandbox has recently patch in a patch to tweak the...
Camelot Unchained is working on trebuchets, Luchorpán animations, and… underpants
Hot damn, we hope you like trebuchets because Camelot Unchained is talking about 'em again. "While still ongoing, we’ve previously completed a whole host...
Ragnarok Online 2 stumbles into maintenance mode as Gravity officially ends development
It looks like it's lights out for Ragnarok Online 2, Gravity Interactive's core sequel to the long-running Ragnarok Online (yes, there are several other...
NCsoft West mobile studio Iron Tiger hit with layoffs ahead of Aion Legions of War launch
Remember back at the end of 2015 when NCsoft was talking up its reinvestment in western franchises and studios? One of its plans included...
The Daily Grind: What’s your core problem with mobile MMOs, and is it fixable?
Droid Gamers put out an interesting piece this weekend that to me illuminates how the ongoing conversation about mobile MMOs go south. Author Ash...
MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr chapter heralds five months of cat memes
I wouldn't go calling Elder Scrolls Online's Khajiit catgirls and catboys to their faces, but we're sure to be tempted this summer when as...
Make My MMO: WoW’s esports crowdfunding, Legends of Aria’s spring delay
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, Blizzard is making its debut in this column, as it officially announced that it will be partially crowdfunding World...
Classic MapleStory is bumping its level cap in next week’s Black Mage: New Beginnings update
Over in classic MapleStory, players are anxiously awaiting the launch of Black Mage: New Beginnings next week on the 23rd, which itself will be...
The multiplayer Skyrim Together mod is about to hit closed beta
If you've been around the Elder Scrolls modding community long enough, you know that fan efforts to bring multiplayer elements to the franchise's single-player...
MapleStory 2 posts three-month feedback plan for gemstone, pet, and Meso improvements
January always seems to be a time of regrouping for MMO communities and studios, and Nexon is joining the trend with MapleStory 2. Producer...
